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Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Transition

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    9780521653053

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    0521653053

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-04-24
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Originally published in 2000. Demographers predict that world population will double to around twelve billion people during the first half of the twenty-first century and then begin to level off. Based on this scenario, Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Transition examines what societal changes must occur over the next generation to ensure a successful transition to sustainability within the constraints of the natural environment. An array of prominent authors present a broad discussion of the dimensions of sustainable development: not just economic and environmental, but also spiritual and religious, corporate and social, scientific and political. Unlike other books on the subject, this volume provides insightful policy recommendations about how business, government, and individuals must change their values, priorities, and behaviour to meet these challenges. This volume will appeal to scholars and decision makers interested in global change, environmental policy, population growth, and sustainable development, and also to corporate environmental managers.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vi
Foreword xi
Bruce Alberts
Preface xv
C.H. Ward
Jurgen Schmandt
Challenge and response
1(10)
Jurgen Schmandt
C.H. Ward
National self-interest in the pursuit of sustainable development
11(52)
Malcolm Gills
Jeffrey R. Vincent
Uneconomic growth: Empty-world versus full-world economics
63(16)
Herman E. Daly
Population and consumption: From more to enough
79(22)
Robert W. Kates
Spirituality and sustainability
101(12)
Carla V. Berkedal
Leadership skills for sustainable development
113(18)
Bruce W. Piasecki
The role of science: Guidance and service
131(22)
Stephen H. Schneider
Economic tools, international trade, and the role of business
153(22)
Frances Cairncross
Stakeholders and sustainable development
175(28)
James B. Blackburn
From idea to action: The role of policy
203(18)
Jurgen Schmandt
Index 221

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